number
dec ed offici
th United St te inere d
by only toper nt bet-
n July 1978 and July
1979, cording to
y conducted by
Joint Center for Political
udi
Th re are
e ected officials
100,000
The
T T county level,
the number of Blac elected
officials' 402. Thi ' do
, tly from 1978 hen the
fJgUre 410.
Other categorie r '-
ed change The
number of e cted Bla On
g bodie
decreased from 26 in 1978 .... � .,
to 2S in 1979. The number
of B tate le' to
r from 294 in 1978 to
307 in 1979. increase
reflected the inel 'on of 13
legi ators from the Virgin
Island . '
Th number of B
orth Carolina in Congr in 1979 is 17,
(237); California the it in 1978.
(226 ; South Ho , n Bl ck House
(222); Alab membe ere dded from
(208); e Yo (19)' Ohio California, Illinoi Pennsyl­
(177); Texa (174); and e vania, nd Tex to replace
Jer y (143 . Bla incombents ho
either II tired from Con­
, ere defeated in pri­
mary election or died in
office.
In dditon,
Ed ard Broo e (R .)
defeated in his bid for
r -election, and Dr. elvin
Evan Republican,
became the fir Blac re-
pre n ti to Congre
from th Virgin I land .
The number of Bl c
drnin trato and
fo : te gencies
incre by one furing
the p t year, but many of
the incomben and posi
tion chan d. Georg
Brown, lieutenant go ernor
of Colorado, cho not to
e re-e ctio , hil
ervyn Dymally, lie uten an t
go ernor of California,
defeated in . bid for
re-election.
of tate
1978.
than there
ere in
t the judicial and la
enforcem nt I vel, Blacks
th continue to m e all but
18 percent total consistent gains. In 1977,
Blac popul 'on, no ha there ere 447 BI s in
541 0 11.7 percent of all judicial and la enforce­
BI el cted official. Bl ment positions. In 1978 this
e cted official in th orth- figure ro to 454, and in
e t incre d by 12 during 1979 it mere d to 486,
th p t year. yen percent gain.
since e t, which
Joint Center" nin percent of th Bl
Bet- popul tion, h 290 or 6.3
percent of all B c elected
offici
BY C TEGO Y of
offi ld, B c om'
e more numerous t th
municipal Ie I. There e
no 2,235 Bl holding a
. ty of mum ipal office
65 more than in 1978. TIll
repr nts 48 percent of all
Blae e ected officehold r .
Of the total number of
B municipal official,
191 are mayor. (116 were
at ula elected mayors and 15
pop -. er designated ch by
city governing bodie.)
ixty-' percent of the
mayor are from th
South and 70 percent are
from cornmunitie with
population of 5,000 <X e
The cood large t
proportion of B e ected
officals in ed cation
·tion. Last year, 1,138
or 26 percent 0 aD B
h ding e cti office
ed at this I. In 1979
there 1,144 Bla
educatio positi y
are 2S percent of alf B�
e cted offlceho e. .
Blac
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